Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with plant names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. APNI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, please use the Australian Plant Census (APC) link above.

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Showing Alternanthera

Amaranthaceae Juss.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Caryophyllanae(superordo)
Caryophyllales(ordo)
Amaranthaceae(fam.)
Alternanthera(gen.)

Alternanthera Forssk.

, legitimate

, scientific

Forsskål, P. (1775), Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica

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28

[tax. nov.]

Type: Alternanthera achyranthes Forsskal

Comment: For note on typification see C.G.G.J. van Steenis, Fl. Males. ser. I, 5 (1958) 554–555; R.Melville, Kew Bull. 13 (1958) 171–172.

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805

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416

[secondary reference]

Palisot de Beauvois, A.M.F.J. (1818), Flore d'Oware et de Benin en Afrique 2(17)

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66, t. 99, fig. 1

[secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants

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28

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Telanthera R.Br.

legitimate

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales

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79

[secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants

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403

[secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae.

Flora of South Australia

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215

[secondary reference]

Etymology: Latin alternus, alternate; anthera, anther: filaments without anthers often alternate with fertile stamens.

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae.

Flora of South Australia

:

331

[secondary reference]

Etymology: "Latin alternus, alternate; anthera anther; filaments without anthers often alternate with fertile stamens"

Backer, C.A. (December 1949), Amaranthaceae.

Flora Malesiana Series I

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91-94

[secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains

:

167

[secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae.

The Student's Flora of Tasmania

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568

[secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory

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160

[secondary reference]

Mears, J.A. (1977), The Nomenclature and Type Collections of the Widespread Taxa of Alternanthera.

Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 129

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1-21

[secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants

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266

[secondary reference]

George, A.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Amaranthaceae (except Ptilotus).

Flora of Central Australia

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83

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales

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63

[secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Amaranthaceae.

Flora of South-eastern Queensland

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136-138

[secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Amaranthaceae.

Flora of the Perth Region

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92

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Lapinpuro, L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Amaranthaceae.

Flora of New South Wales

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249-250

[secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Amaranthaceae.

Flora of the Kimberley Region

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107-108

[secondary reference]

Barker, R.M. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Amaranthaceae.

Flora of Australia

:

116

APC

[secondary reference]

APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (native and naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), NI, ACT (native and naturalised), Vic (native and naturalised), Tas

Townsend, C.C. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1993), Amaranthaceae.

The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants

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89

[secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island.

Flora of Australia

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88

[secondary reference]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Amaranthaceae.

Flora of Victoria

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213

[secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Lapinpuro, L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Amaranthaceae.

Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition

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249

[secondary reference]

Short, P.S. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Amaranthaceae.

Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia

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64

[secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons.

Flora of the South West

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474

[secondary reference]

Western Australian Herbarium (2007), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5

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-

[secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3

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33

[secondary reference]